*220b. 
+220c. 
220d. 
130 
usually showing 2 distinct black median 
bands, the terminal one narrower and often 
broken ; under wing-coverts rufous brown 
spotted with white, the greater ones ashy. 
Spilornis cheela spilogaster (Blyth), Jnl. As. 
Soc. Beng., xxi., p. 351 (1852). [Ceylon.] 
Ceylon Serpent-Eagle. 
Slightly smaller, and wings shorter ; wing 3 
370-375 mm. ; throat and cheeks and ear- 
coverts ashy brown ; tailasin S.c. albidus ; 
chest and upper breast always uniform 
darker brown in adults ; primaries below 
with only one blackish median band. 
Spilornis cheela burmanicus Swann, Syn. 
List. Accipitr., p. 81 (1920). [Jobin, Thayet- 
myo, Burma, type in coll. H. Kirke Swann ; 
and examples in coll. Brit. Mus.] 
Burmese Serpent-Eagle. 
Wing 3 430-455, 2 436-462 mm. ; larger 
and much paler above and below ; with the 
hind cheeks and ear-coverts ashy ; throat 
as pale as chest, but tinged with ashy and, 
like chest, finely vermiculated ; white spots 
below rounded and less distinct, the darker 
margins much paler ; primaries below as in 
S. c. cheela, but black terminal band not 
more than 75 mm. wide; under wing- 
coverts rufous with white spots, the outer 
edge white. 
Spilormis cheela rutherford Swinh., Ibis, 
1870, p. 85. [Central Hainan.] 
Hainan Serpent-Eagle. 
Smaller; wing (ex. from Hainan, Tring 
Mus.) 405-430, 2 393-411 mm.; throat 
slaty brown to dusky. 
Ceylon. 
Burma, N. to 
Upper Burma 
and Shan States 
S. to Tavoy, at 
least, in 
Tenasserim ; 
Siam (Gylden- 
stolpe) 
Hainan I. ; 
French Indo 
China. 
